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Heisman / Players / Kanen Hamlett /App State

Kanen Hamlett

TE · App State · Jr · #86

Below the discourse floor — the honest stats-only state.

142 REC YDS · 13 REC · 2 REC TD

2026 RETURNINGReturning to App State for 2026

2026 Outlook

Returning to App State for 2026

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Tight end · App State

Returning around him

  • 14% of 2024 offensive production back (Heavy turnover)
  • Transfer portal: -3 net (38 in / 41 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

App State · Last season: 5-8 · Talent rank #79 · 2026 recruiting class #116

TE · APP STATE · SUN BELT

Kanen Hamlett

  • 3
  • #86
  • 6-4 | 235 lb
  • Madison, AL

CFB Zeitgeist Score

34

Below cohort in the position cohort. Carried by yards / catch at the 55th percentile.

Heisman Heat

#4788

<1% win probability

Fan Belief

Awaiting

Player-specific FI not yet ingested. Falls back to team mood below.

Respect Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

Reality Gap

Awaiting

Coming online with player-level FI.

ACCOLADE PROBABILITY

Heisman

<1%

TOP TE AWARD

Mackey

CONSENSUS

All-American

Player Standing · 17 rungs

Tier 2 · Starter

R05 · Part-time starter

Part-time starter. Splitting first-team reps.

Not on team2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Career Arc

HS
Recruit
★★★
#1624 national
CFB
College
App State
2025
NFL
NFL Draft
Not drafted (yet)

Identity & Role

The durable bio layer: position, size, hometown, and roster role.

PositionTE
Class3
Jersey86
Measurements6-4 | 235 lb
HometownMadison, AL
Primary teamApp State

Recruiting Pedigree

How big the prospect was before college, and whether the later career arc beat that expectation.

Top pedigree 3-star No. 1624 recruit
Composite rating 0.8348 HighSchool
Signed with App State 2022
Origin Madison Academy Madison, AL, USA
Class Profile Context
2022 3-star | 0.8348 No. 1624 recruit | HighSchool | App State

Transfer Arc

Portal movement changes role, context, and perception. This keeps that path in one place.

Portal moves 0 No portal entry on file
Latest destination -- --
Transfer stars -- CFBD transfer rating context
Eligibility -- Transfer date TBD
Season Move Context
No transfer portal moves on file for this player.

Heisman Lens · 2024 Season · Final

Where the player landed at the end of the listed season — final nowcast rank, win/finalist/ballot probabilities, and the cleanest official Heisman placement on file.

HIGH CONFIDENCE· through week 16
Current nowcast#4788Latest modeled ballot order
Season forecast#5089Where the full season sim points
Win probability0.0%Chance to actually win the trophy
Finalist probability0.0%Chance to make the finalist tier
Ballot probability0.0%Chance to appear anywhere on a ballot
Best official finish--Best completed Heisman placement on file

Heisman Futures

Not yet listed on major futures markets.

No achievements unlocked yet this season.

Selector Grid · 2025

AP
FWAA
AFCA
WCFF
SN
SI

Selector recognition fills in once the major honors lists (AP, FWAA, AFCA, Walter Camp, Sporting News, SI) are scraped and ingested.

NIL · Recruiting · NFL Draft

Market value, pedigree & pro outcome

Recruit stars

★★★☆☆

to App State

Composite

0.8348

#1624 national

Today’s Hot-Take

The Hot-Take engine fires when this player’s percentile profile crosses a defensible threshold (top 10% in a cohort, 100+ snap sample). When it’s quiet, the model is honoring its “must be defensible” rule.

Anti-Take

PENDING

The contrarian read fires when the rules-engine detects a stat that complicates the Hot-Take. Quiet here means the model hasn’t found a defensible counter yet — not that one doesn’t exist.

The Room on Kanen Hamlett

Fan sentiment · Awaiting signal

The Room reads fan conversation around a player — who’s talking, what they believe, and how that shifts. It publishes once weekly volume rebuilds; for most players that’s in-season, when game-week chatter spikes.

Cohort divergence map

Cohort divergence reads how different fanbases talk about this player. Returns once weekly mentions clear the publish floor.

Rival Radar

How rival fanbases talk about Kanen Hamlett

No rival-bucket mentions in the current season.

Signature Story

Awaiting candidate metric

He hasn't written his page yet — we'll start filling it in when there are enough snaps to rank against his peers.

Signature Moment

No signature moment on the ledger yet.

Returns once this player puts together a multi-game body of work — single-game flashes alone don't clear the bar.

A 3-act season arc returns once this player has six or more games on the ledger.

Season Pace · Projection

Where the receiving totals stand

projecting to 13-game
Through 7g
142Rec yards
13Receptions
2Rec TDs
Per game
20.3Rec yards
2Receptions
0Rec TDs
Projected (13g)
263.7Rec yards
24Receptions
4Rec TDs

To hit 700-yard receiver (currently 142): needs 93/game over remaining 6.

To hit 1,000-yard receiver (currently 142): needs 143/game over remaining 6.

To hit 60-catch season (currently 13): needs 7.8/game over remaining 6.

To hit 80-catch season (currently 13): needs 11.2/game over remaining 6.

To hit 8 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 1/game over remaining 6.

To hit 10 receiving TDs (currently 2): needs 1.3/game over remaining 6.

What made this player interesting

The fast read on the thing that makes this player more than a generic stat line.

Kanen Hamlett's story is about how role and output meet each other. For App State, the card already shows enough current-season production to explain why he is on the serious-player board, and the next layer is determining whether the profile is just very good or actually distinctive.

Current place #4788 0.0% win | 0.0% finalist
Role load 2.5% Overall usage share
Profile quirk Development arc The card should explain why this profile stands out

2025 Season · Final

Traditional stats first. Advanced context underneath.

Last season

TE season snapshot

2025 season snapshot | final

2025 season snapshot | finalData: CFBD player stats + local Heisman modelPeer context: same position + same level
Receptions 13 2 rec TD | #154/475 (68th pct)
Receiving yards 142 10.9 per catch | #154/475 (68th pct)
Scrimmage yards 142 Total offensive yardage | #154/475 (68th pct)
Player identity What kind of player is this?

30-second read

What kind of player is this?

Receiving weapon against FBS receiving peers.

Balanced profile

2025 Season · Final

2025 season snapshot | final

Receiving

REC
13 68th
YDS
142 68th
YPR
10.9 63rd
TD
2 84th

Game Log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 7 games

Box score · CFBD
WkOppRECYDSAVGTDLONGNote
Wk 1W 34-11@ Charlotte11919.0119
Wk 2W 20-13vs Lindenwood11616.0016
Wk 6W 27-23vs Oregon State1-3-3.000
Wk 7W 41-20@ Georgia State22713.5027
Wk 9L 21-24@ Old Dominion67212.0135Season-high 72 yds
Wk 14L 29-30vs Arkansas State166.006
BowlL 10-29vs Georgia Southern155.005
Total131429.8235
Season-by-season tables Career rows + per-season box score

Traditional history

Traditional Stats

Season rows up top, career context at the bottom.

Season rows Career row

Season context · Team result + system

2025App State5-8HC: Dowell Loggains · Pass-leaning
SeasonTeam
2025App State1314210.92--
Career1 loaded season1314210.92--
Advanced layer Usage, value, and context

Advanced metrics second

Advanced Metrics

Usage, value, and opponent-adjusted context.

Usage Value Context
Pass share

The tight end's share of the passing offense, which helps distinguish a featured receiving tight end from a secondary option.

Role share

A blended usage view that shows how often the offense flows through the tight end compared with other same-level peers.

Peer percentile

Every percentile is compared against players at the same position and level, so an FBS quarterback is judged against FBS quarterbacks, not the whole sport.

Traditional first

The top tables stick to the stats fans already know from broadcasts and box scores. Advanced context is pushed underneath instead of replacing the basics.

Usage 2.5% 5.0% pass-game share | #290/468 (38th pct)
Return yards 0 0 return TD
Touchdowns 2 Across offense and returns | #79/475 (84th pct)
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Group Metric Value Rank Pct Why it matters
Receiving Receptions 13 #154/475 68th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving yards 142 #154/475 68th pct Volumevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving TD 2 #79/475 84th pct Scoringvs FBS TE
Receiving Yards / catch 10.9 #177/475 63rd pct Efficiencyvs FBS TE
Usage Pass share 5.0% #290/468 38th pct Air-game usagevs FBS TE
Receiving Receiving LONG 35 #97/475 80th pct Metricvs FBS TE
Usage 2nd-down usage 2.7% #290/468 38th pct Middle-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Standard-down usage 2.6% #260/468 45th pct Base-situation sharevs FBS TE
Usage 1st-down usage 2.5% #277/468 41st pct Early-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Role share 2.5% #282/468 40th pct Share of team offensevs FBS TE
Usage Passing-down usage 2.3% #311/468 34th pct Known-passing sharevs FBS TE
Usage 3rd-down usage 1.2% #328/468 30th pct Money-down loadvs FBS TE
Usage Rush share 0.0% #58/468 88th pct Ground-game usagevs FBS TE

Player Standing

Universal 17-step ladder. Tier pills below; accolade streams nested.

AWAITING CLASSIFICATION

On-team2-deepStartingRecognizedEliteApex

AWAITING CLASSIFICATION · Rung None of 16

Why he’s here

Standing classification populates when honors, Heisman, and roster signals all align.

What moves him up

What moves him down

Accolade streams

StatusAwaiting tracker

The Mackey award tracker integrates per-week probability once a dedicated scraper for this award lands. Confirmed past winners and finalists for this player will surface here.

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 7 games

Home/Road · Win/Loss · Season halves

Home vs Road

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Home4g1.06.06.00.0
Road3g3.039.314.80.7

Win vs Loss

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Wins4g1.214.811.40.2
Losses3g2.727.77.70.3

First half vs Second half

REC/gYDS/gYPRTD/g
Weeks 1-75g1.212.810.10.2
Weeks 8+2g3.539.09.00.5

Pocket and defense-quality (clean vs. pressure) splits are coming soon.

Savant · Box-rate percentiles

Where this profile ranks vs the TE cohort

34Below cohort
5 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: receptions (9th).

Yards / catch#77 / 175 · 55th pct
10.9rece
Long catch#81 / 175 · 53rd pct
35rece
Rec TDs#76 / 175 · 43rd pct
2rece
Rec yards#150 / 175 · 15th pct
142rece
Receptions#154 / 175 · 9th pct
13rece

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score rates.

Advanced Savant · TE · 2024

Percentile Card

Advanced opponent-adjusted percentile bars are coming soon for this player.

P4G5All FBS
EPA / dropback
awaiting
CPOE
awaiting
Success rate
awaiting
Explosive rate (20+)
awaiting
aDOT
awaiting
Deep-ball accuracy
awaiting
Pressure-to-sack
awaiting
3rd-down EPA
awaiting
Red-zone TD rate
awaiting
Play-action EPA
awaiting
Scramble EPA
awaiting
Turnover-worthy play rate
awaiting

Advanced Savant

Opponent-adjusted advanced metrics with a cohort filter.

Advanced opponent-adjusted metrics are coming soon for this player. Selected cohort: P4.

Peer Comparator · Fingerprint match

Three closest profiles by box-rate percentile

3 peers · 5 metrics
Kanen HamlettApp StateLuke LindenmeyerNebraska· 64% simHayden HansenFlorida· 62% simBryce CaufieldOregon State· 62% sim
Yards / catch
55
Hamlett
53
Lindenmeyer
16
Hansen
7
Caufield
Long catch
53
Hamlett
23
Lindenmeyer
32
Hansen
39
Caufield
Rec TDs
43
Hamlett
43
Lindenmeyer
43
Hansen
21
Caufield
Rec yards
15
Hamlett
63
Lindenmeyer
54
Hansen
44
Caufield
Receptions
9
Hamlett
66
Lindenmeyer
69
Hansen
66
Caufield

Closest peers by overall box-score percentile profile at the same position.

Player DNA

The Complete TE

Dual-threat: blocks when needed, catches when needed. Coveted on both sides.

TE

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Nicky Dalmolin’s 2022 season.

Nicky Dalmolin

76%match

Duke · 2022

#2

Broc Lane

Utah State · 2025

73%
#3

Clayton Ollendieck

Troy · 2023

71%
#4

Will Wallace

Tulane · 2021

71%
#5

Austin Hence

Western Michigan · 2023

71%

Matches Nicky on

Total EPA (college ability)
Class year

Differs from Nicky on

Yards / reception (higher)
Recruiting rating (lower)
Reception volume (lower)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Devin Miller's sophomore season at Marshall (2021).

Devin Miller

75%match

Marshall · 2021

#2

Raymond Pauwels Jr.

Fresno State · 2021

74%
#3

Camden Overton

Georgia State · 2025

72%
#4

Niko Hea

Missouri · 2021

72%
#5

Arlis Boardingham

Florida · 2024

72%

Matches Devin on

Total EPA (college ability)
Height
EPA / play (adj)

Differs from Devin on

TD rate (higher)

Supporting Cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Dowell Loggains

Pass share

55.6%

508 pass / 405 run

Plays / game

70.2

13 games

OL sack rate (allowed)

6.7%

389 dropbacks · PBP

Scheme: Pass-leaning.

Coaching Lineage · 2025

1 coach
2025
Dowell Loggains
App State

Played his entire career under Dowell Loggains.

Bio · Recruiting · Transfer · Roster

Off-field context — switch tabs to drill into recruit profile, transfer arc, or roster timeline.

HometownMadison, AL
Height6'4"
Weight235 lb
Class3
PositionTE
Jersey86

Trophy Case · Detail

Every honor on the ledger, broken out by stream and selector.

Honors

No formal honors on the ledger yet

All-America, all-conference, player-of-the-week, watch-list, and postseason awards land here when they're earned. The absence is the signal: most players never collect formal honors, and that's its own kind of context.

Honors Timeline

Season-end distinction and week-by-week recognition on one timeline.

Season Honor Scope Team / Selector Context
No formal honors on the ledger yet. All-America, all-conference, weekly awards, watch lists, and postseason trophies land here when they’re earned.

Heisman By Year

Modeled rank and official finish by season.

Season Team Role Latest Model Forecast Win Finalist Official Finish Points Context
2024 App State TE3 #4788 #5089 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W16 snapshot | Sun Belt
2023 App State TE3 #4125 #3800 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W19 snapshot | Sun Belt
2022 App State TE3 #4458 #4432 0.0% 0.0% -- -- W20 snapshot | Sun Belt

Roster Timeline

Team, conference, and class by season.

Season Team Conference Pos Class Bio
2025 App State Sun Belt TE 3 No. 86 | 6-4 | 235 lb | Madison, AL
2024 App State Sun Belt TE 3 No. 86 | 6-4 | 235 lb | Madison, AL
2023 App State Sun Belt TE 3 No. 86 | 6-4 | 235 lb | Madison, AL
2022 App State Sun Belt TE 3 No. 86 | 6-4 | 235 lb | Madison, AL